Ladies and Gentlemen... The Bangles!

Ladies and Gentlemen... The Bangles! is a compilation album released by The Bangles on Thanksgiving Day, 2014.

Ladies and Gentlemen... The Bangles!
Compilation album by
The Bangles
ReleasedNovember 27, 2014
Recorded1981–1984
GenrePop, garage rock, new wave
Length34:49
LabelDownKiddie! Records
ProducerThe Bangles, Craig Leon (tracks 4-8)
The Bangles chronology
Sweetheart of the Sun
(2011)		 Ladies and Gentlemen... The Bangles!
(2014)

The album, released independently on the band's own DownKiddie! label, was initially available in digital format and compiles all of the early material the band produced before they were signed to major label Columbia Records in 1984. It was eventually released on CD and vinyl in 2016 by Omnivore Recordings.[1]

The remastered material included spans the years 1981 to 1984. The compilation features both tracks from the band's debut independent single (as The Bangs) from 1981, "Getting Out of Hand" and "Call on Me," as well as all five songs from the group's self-titled EP released in 1982. Both releases are considered rarities and have long been out of print.

Also included are tracks the Bangles recorded in 1982-83 that were released on compilation albums - the instrumental "Bitchen Summer/Speedway" (first released on the Rodney On The ROQ Vol. III LP in 1982), "No Mag Commercial" (originally on The Radio Tokyo Tapes LP in 1983) and the theme song for the syndicated radio program "Rock And Roll Alternative," hosted by George Gimarc and originating from KZEW in Dallas. The latter track first appeared on the CD accompanying Gimarc's 1997 book Post Punk Diary 1980 - 1982.

The compilation also features four unreleased songs from the Bangs' first demo cassette in 1981: Early versions of "The Real World" and "Call on Me," and covers of The Turtles' "Outside Chance" (co-written by Warren Zevon) and Paul Revere & The Raiders' "Steppin' Out." Two unreleased live songs from 1984 are the only tracks on which bassist Michael Steele plays - a cover of Love's "7 and 7 Is", and the Bangles original "Tell Me," a song on their 1984 debut full-length album All Over The Place.

The title of the compilation is taken from the spoken intro to "Bitchen Summer/Speedway."

Track listing
  1. "Bitchen Summer/Speedway" (1982) (Susanna Hoffs/David Roback)
  2. "Getting Out of Hand" (1981) (Vicki Peterson)
  3. "Call on Me" (1981) (S. Hoffs/V. Peterson/ D. Roback)
  4. "The Real World" (1982) (S. Hoffs/V. Peterson)
  5. I'm in Line (1982) (Debbi Peterson/V. Peterson/S. Hoffs)
  6. "Want You" (1982) (V. Peterson)
  7. "Mary Street" (1982) (S. Hoffs/V. Peterson)
  8. "How is the Air Up There?" (1982) (S. Duboff/A. Kornfeld)
  9. "Outside Chance" (unreleased demo, 1981) (Glenn Crocker/Warren Zevon)
  10. "Steppin’ Out" (unreleased demo, 1981) (Mark Lindsay/Paul Revere)
  11. "The Real World" (unreleased demo, 1981) (S. Hoffs/V. Peterson)
  12. "Call on Me" (unreleased demo, 1981) (S. Hoffs/V. Peterson/D. Roback)
  13. "Tell Me" (live performance at Dingwalls, London, 1984) (S. Hoffs/V. Peterson)
  14. "7 & 7 Is" (live performance at The Palace, Hollywood, 1984) (Arthur Lee)
  15. "No Mag Commercial" (1982) (S. Hoffs/V. Peterson)
  16. "The Rock & Roll Alternative Program theme song" (1982) (D. Peterson/V. Peterson/S. Hoffs)

Personnel

References
  1. "The Bangles – Ladies And Gentlemen… The Bangles!". Discogs.com. Retrieved February 4, 2023.


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